hi,

I wanted to know how do we access 2 machines which are in the same network.
I mean i have a Windows machine with some drives as shared and i wanna access those drives from my Linux box.
I have Fedora 3 (2.6.11) installed.


Vishal

Turn on the Samba service on your linux box. Once started, you can then refer to the pathname using

smb://<server_name>/path/to/share

At least you can do this using Konqueror. I'm sure there is something similar in Nautilus.

You can also mount specific directories locally, too, using the '-t smbfs' option with the mount command.

You would use Samba to share files between linux and windows systems.

See Chapter 15 (Samba) of the RHEL4 System Administrators Guide (http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/e.../ch-samba.html) for a simplified overview and see Chapter 14 (Samba) of the RHEL4 Reference Guide (http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/e.../ch-samba.html) for more details.

...and please fill "Location: " and "Distribution: " fields in your profile.

to access them from your linux box you can use smbmnt //IP/share_name /mount/point

if the user name is the same you will only be prompted for a password, if not you will have to look into the options for adding the username=option.

you can also add a line to your fstab to make the mount automatic and happen on boot. i use the smbmount on my linux boxes all the time to gain access to my windows shares, but then i have the shares on the same user name on all the boxes. this is NOT the most secure way to do things, but for a home user i do not care. for a network that needs more security i use fstab with a .password file for security.

enjoy.

Just marking this thread to help me find it later ... Thanks

I was first trying to use nfs to share between two Linux Boxes and it worked well one way. I mean if i tried mounting my frnds hard drive, it worked well, but when he tried to mount my harddrive, it failed. We both followed the same steps and i dont knwo the possible reason for that getting falied.

When my frnd tried to mount my harddrive, the error message it gave was
:The network might be possible down


Any help wud be greatly appreciated. Would try using the Samba server once my Windoze machine is up

did u try the smbmount option mentioned in the above posts

if yes post the O/P that u got along with the command???

regards

maybe u won't be knowing this, i too found out this later
that if u want to follow a thread then u need not post a dumumy post so that u can track that later on instead u can subscribe to that thead by the subscribe option at the end of this page

regards

i think smbmount wud be used if i need to mount a drive from a windoze machine, but i used NFS to mount a drive from Linux box with Fedora 3

But i did not use smbmount. I just used mount 192.168.2.125/home/shareddrive /mnt/drive_d

try

mount -t smbfs '// 192.168.2.125/home/shareddrive' /mnt/drive_d

regards

There's a "subscribe to this thread" link at the bottom of the page (when you're logged in). It took me a while to notice it too.

hey i just mentioned the same thing in a coupe of posts above

Didn't mean to step on your toes. I didn't see it or I wouldn't have said it.

Take care!

hey
no problem !!